Education

Sept 2013 – July 2017 Leeds College of Music: Jazz & Classical Saxophone

Solo: Saxophone, Electronics, Keys, Vox

PRS Foundation Women Make Music Award 2024, Peter Whittingham Jazz Award 2021 & Jerwood Arts Jazz Encounter Fellow 2020-2022.

‘Sound & Music’ composer advisory group. Featured in DJ Mag, The Wire, Electronic Sound, Bandcamp

Played across BBC 6Music, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Introducing.

Notable Performances:

Solo tour of ‘Divided’ 2024: London, Birmingham, Stroud, Edinburgh, Glasgow

Solo tour of ‘Fig’ 2023: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, London, Birmingham, Brighton and Smida Jazz Festival, Romania.

Solo tour of ‘Flow’ 2020: London, Bristol, Birmingham, Newcastle, Leeds, Coventry

UK festivals and venues including but not limited to: Brilliant Corners Festival (Belfast 2023), End of the Road Festival (Sept 2022) London Jazz Festival (2021 & 2022) Cafe Oto, Vortex Jazz Club, Cheltenham Jazz Festival (2021) Tubax International Festival Munich (2019), Manchester Jazz Festival (2019&2022) Digital Cities Festival (2021) Nonclassical (2021) Fizzle (2022) Fusebox, Hyde Park Jazz Festival (2021) Think Tank (2019)

Notable Commissions:

Sage Gateshead - Mini Foundry (February 2023) 5 day residency to work on live electronic solo set

Jerwood Arts & Cheltenham Jazz Festival Jazz Encounters Fellowship 2020-2022 - creation of audio visual immersive installation 5m geodesic dome placed in Manchester Piccadilly train station (free to the public)

Kahlo Theatre - Compose & Produce music & sfx for the play ‘The Other Side’ 2021

- Marsden Jazz Festival - produce jingle for Podcast 2020

- Tales of Tooting for World Heartbeat Music academy (compose soundtrack and interviews telling the stories and changes of Tooting) 2019

Discography: Saxophone & Electronics

-Wanted (Sept 2024) with Scrawl Records / Single

-Dome (Sept 2024) with Lo Recordings / Album

-Divided EP (Sept 2024) with Sound Records / EP

- Fig (June 2023) / EP

- Flow (2022) / EP

-Upside Down (2022) with No Such Thing Records / Single

- Ensō (2020) / EP

- Pillow with Nonclassical Records / Single

Mentored by:

Gazelle Twin, Abram Wilson Charity - Federico Bolza & Jennie Cashman Wilson, Anna Meredith, Chris Sharkey, Julia Payne

Notable Support Slots

Emika (Oct 2024), Nathan Fake (April 2023), El Khat (March 2023), The Orb (June 2022), Modern Nature (May 2022),Robocobra Quartet (February 2022), Alison Cotton (December 2021), Andrew Woodhead (October 2021)

Radio play:

BBC Radio 6 C list, features on Mary Anne Hobbs show BBC 6Music, Tom Ravenscroft BBC 6 Music Introducing, BBC Radio 3 Freeness, Worldwide Fm & Resonance Fm, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio London

Solo Piano 

‘Lara a piano at night’ released on HPBC records. Commissioned for live session for BBC Introducing Leeds

Radio play: Live session BBC Introducing Leeds, BBC Radio 3 Freeness

Notable Performances:

Leeds piano trial - September 2021, Howard Assembly Room - October 2021, Eiger Studios (installation performance with visuals at 2am) - May 2019

J Frisco: Experimental/Improvisational Trio

Jazz North introduces artists 2017-2018

Notable Performances: Vortex Jazz Club, The Cockpit-Jazz in the Round, London Jazz Festival (2019, 2020, 2021) Kings place, Purcell Room, Manchester Jazz Festival, Gateshead International Jazz Festival, Sofar Sounds

Discography:

Naked (2018) - As supported by Jazz North

Cut Throat (2020) 

Composed and recorded our 3rd album (unreleased) at Gisburn Forest - parts of forest, forest stage & accommodation given to us in kind for the completion of the record. 

Collaboration:

• J Frisco & Archipelago collaboration with performances at Leeds Jazz Festival (July 2019) Lancaster Jazz Festival (Sept 2018) Jazz at the Lescar (Sept 2018)

Radio Play: BBC Radio 3 ‘Freeness’ & ‘Jazz Now’ & BBC Radio 6 ‘Freakzone’

Notable Support Slots:

Courtney Pine, Laura Jurd, Novelist, Matthew Bourne, Edgar Jones, Elliot Galvin, Roller Trio, Alison Rayner, The Guest Stars, Portico Quartet, Mali Hayes, Chris Sharley and Mark Sanders, Run Logan Run

Northern Contemporary Collective: Large ensemble dedicated to contemporary collaboration, graphic scores & movement.

Notable Performances: 

Celebration of Pauline Oliveros' Music in collaboration with Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival at Leeds College of Music, Collaboration with visual artist David Lynch and Christophe De Bezenac, Leeds International Concert Season with collaboration dancer Sam Underwood, Sounds like THIS Festival with visual artist Howell. 

LIAM festival - Day long creation of Music, Art and Moving Visuals (August 2019)

Airplays - BBC Radio Leeds and Leeds Conservatoire commission ; compose and perform music for 4 x radio plays winner of O2 media award.

Commission & Collaborations

• Peter Whittingham Jazz Award: composition of 2nd solo saxophone & electronics album ‘Flow’ 2021

• Jerwood Arts Jazz Encounters Fellow; building an installation in a train station to be presented at Manchester Jazz Festival 2022

• Marsden Jazz Festival - compose & produce jingle for podcast 2020

• Solo saxophone & electronics commission by Manchester Jazz Festival Hothouse programme 2019 

• ‘Sonder’ collaboration with Riptide Theatre & musician Mikey Sluman; composition & recording of music for immersive app experience released on Apple Music store

• ‘Samurai’ live improvisation to short film with J Frisco presented by LCoM 2018 - Graphic score collaboration with Dr. Jacob Thompson-Bell and Dr. Nick Katuszonek 2017 

• Penisular Arts performance with Dr. Federico Visi and Marco Frattini 2016 (composing music and performing with motion sensors)

• Tour with improvisational electronics, oboe and percussion group Departure Lounge 2016 

• Collaboration with Northern School of Contemporary Dance with Leeds Conservatoires New Music Collective at Leeds Light Night 2016 

Sponsorship / Endorsement

• AMT (Applied Microphone Technology) saxophone microphone

• Dave Walker; professor and instrument Designer - soprano saxophone OW Lineage 

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‘Electronics queen’ - Maryanne Hobbs 6Music 

‘A moody highlight’ of Cheltenham Jazz Festival - The Telegraph

‘One of the best things I've heard this year’ The Visitor Radio

‘The power and the fluidity of movement from technology to playing, absolutely spellbinding’ - Corey Mwamba, Freeness Radio 3

‘Enso is utterly brilliant and beautiful’ Barney Stevenson, Marsden Jazz Festival